Buckle



(No Model.)

W. P. OSBORNE. BUCKLE.

No. 391,332. Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

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NVILBUR F. OSBORNE, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,332, dated October 16, 1888.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILBUR F. OSBORNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at A11- sonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide efficient and economical box-buckles for adjustably connecting suspender and other webs with braided suspender-ends or other articles.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction and combinations of parts, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view showing the buckle detached. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the tubular buckle with the lever detached. Fig. 4 is a view showing a modified construction of the bearings.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral i denotes the buckle, which is composed of a flattened seamless drawn tube adapted toreceive and surround the Suspenderweb 2, which is clamped against one of the fiatinterior faces of the buckle'to fasten the buckle upon the suspender-web, the opposite edges of the tube being rounded to avoid sharp interior angles web.

In one face of the flattened seamless drawn tube 1 is cut a slot, 3, parallel with the longer dimension of the buckle and nearer one of the longer edges than the other. In each end of said slot are formed studs 4, which may be of the metal of the buckle and integral therewith, as shown, orof a different metal and mounted in the ends of the slot. These studs furnish pivotal support for the clamping-lever 5, which has ears or lugs 6 engaging said studs, and a toothed portion, 7, lying within the tubular buckle and at substantially right angles with the lever plate.

I may form the bearings for the clampinglever, as shown in Fig. 4, by cutting short slots 8 a little below the ends of the slot 3, studs 9 being left between the slot 3 and the slots 8, to serve as bearings for the lever. This gives said bearings support at both ends and renders them much stronger.

I am aware that a harness-clasp has comprised a rectangular tube and an internal spring-clamp, as in Letters Patent No. 35,047, and that clamping-levers have been pivoted in the slotted walls of box-like buckle frames, as in Letters Patent No. 348,352. Such, therefore, I do not broadly claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A Suspender-buckle consisting of a seamless drawn tube having a slotted wall, and an external clampinglever pivoted on the tube and having a biting-edge extending through the slot, substantially as described.

2. A buckle composed of a flattened seamless or practically seamless tube, 1, having a slot, 3, and short slots 8 cut beneath the ends of said slot 3 to form intermediate studs, 9, integral with the plate at both ends, in combination with the clamping-lever 5, having ears or lugs 6 bent around said studs, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- WILBUR F. OSBORNE.

Witnesses:

J OHN E. LEWIS, E. G. DUN. 

